We can begin with the problem of someone confusing the map for the territory, or mistaking the menu for the meal. That’s only the first step, however, to preempt people from eating their menus. As quickly as possible, we need to take the next step: realizing that curriculum is NOT the territory: It is, rather, the journey …
Monthly Archives: September 2006
What is curriculum? — Some Observations by Maxine Greene
September 5, 2006 – 7:09 pm
For a start, I think we can do no better than to recycle this quotation from Maxine Greene, which I have often used in both my teaching and my writing.
Answer to the A/C mystery!
September 4, 2006 – 1:37 am
On Panda’s Thumb, Matt Brauer asked, “The obvious question is: Why do the creationists hate air conditioning?!”
Could this be part of the answer to why they hate the study of air conditioning?
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn9898&feedId=online-news_rss20
Air conditioning boom threatens Kyoto protocol
02 September 2006
Mick Hamer
Magazine issue
The units may keep people cool, but they also churn out carbon dioxide which could [...]
Video on True Science and Surgery
September 4, 2006 – 1:02 am
Over at The Panda’s Thumb, bhumburg has posted “a review of modern cardiological techniques.” Predictably, this post is full of the Darwinist religious bias (see Coulter et al.) that we have come to expect from the barflies at Panda’s.
For the (revealed) truth that thoracic surgeons need to know, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffX9msPCwZk . Seriously, this is one video [...]
dilemma: hi-stakes history test ?
September 3, 2006 – 12:49 pm
== UPDATE ==
Bender’s talk will be re-aired on Sunday Sept. 10, 2006 at 3:00 am EDT. See:
http://www.booktv.org/History/index.asp?segID=7137&schedID=449
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See http://www.booktv.org/History/index.asp?segID=7137&schedID=448 for info on a talk by one of my favorite American Historians on his most recent book, which concerns the teaching of American History as part of World History.
During the Q&A, Bender commented on the dilemma of high-stakes [...]
Book-TV notification
September 3, 2006 – 12:46 pm
From time to time, I have posted messages to e-mail lists calling attention to programs on BookTV (http://www.booktv.org/ - weekends on CSPAN 2) that I think my colleagues might want to know about. People have often let me know that they are interested, but that they did not see the message until after the weekend [...]
History: US in the World; also hi-stakes testing
September 3, 2006 – 9:15 am
Bender is right about US & World history; but I disagree with the notion that history can or will really be taught if we have high-stakes testing for history.
